Cloud Computing

Since, cloud services have a huge potential, the demand for professionals will be equally high in the coming years. Moreover, since India does not a have ready talent pool, they might command a premium," says Nitin Khanapurkar, executive director (advisory) KPMG, who works in the domain of cloud computing.
According to a study by global IT consulting firm Zinnov, the global cloud computing market is expected to be over $70 billion by 2015, and India will create job opportunities for about 3 lakh people in the same period.
Salary levels will be equally impressive. An entry-level professional, perhaps with 5-6 years of experience, can earn around 12-19 lakh, while a mid-level executive will get around 20 lakh. People with 10-15 years of experience can hope to get 30 lakh or more.
For those who want to upgrade their skills, the options are, however, limited. For their staff, IT companies themselves are providing training and there are some certificate courses offered by Aptech and NIIT, among others. Job seekers and students, who want to enter the exciting world of cloud computing, might have to wait a while before choices for study open up.

The systems administrator role:
The systems administrator role is perhaps one of the earliest in technology, at least as far as the implementation of a system goes. In the earliest days of computing, electronic technical professionals built prototype computers. In time, the systems administration role owned the installation, configuration, operation and tuning of these systems once they went into production and use on a larger scale.
A few of the tasks associated with the role are:
1. Planning, installing and configuring systems.
2. Planning, designing and creating storage, networking and other system components.
3. Planning, designing and implementing high availability and disaster recovery for each system.
4. Maintaining and monitoring systems.
5. Implementing performance tuning systems based on monitoring.
6. Re-balancing workloads across servers based on monitoring.
7. Securing systems, networks and individual computers based on requirements and implementation.
8. Planning, implementing and controlling user and account security rights and restrictions.
How the cloud changes things:
The systems administrator has the same concerns and impacts of the cloud as the DBA and the systems architect. They need to educate themselves on the options within this new option, try a few test solutions out and of course work with others on various parts of the implementation.